I Fished Up a Person! (Please Collect!)

"Ah!"

"Miss! Run!"

The people around her fell one after another like stalks of wheat, and little Zhu Zhuqing's face was filled with terror.

Roar!!!

The next moment, a tiger's roar jolted her awake. Without hesitation, she turned and ran.

Scalding tears slid down her cheeks. They were tears of sorrow, but also of hatred.

The person responsible for all this was her own older sister. Her people had been bribed and had led her and her guards straight into the Soul Beast territory. Thus, a great battle had begun.

But her guards were no stronger than a Five Ring Soul King, while that Black Tiger was a Nine Thousand Year Soul Beast. All the guards could do was buy time and hope that she could escape.

Was the Imperial Throne really that important?!

That damned tradition of the Star Luo Royal Family required the Royal Princes to fight and kill one another internally. The Zhu Family, which could perform the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, was no different.

Yet those two madmen had actually chosen to strike not long after she became a Soul Master. She was only six years old!

Zhu Zhuqing bit her lips tightly.

I'll remember this grudge! You want me to submit? Then I'll refuse to do as you wish!

If I survive, all of you will pay the price!

Roar!!!

Another tiger's roar came from behind. Tears once again flowed uncontrollably from Zhu Zhuqing's eyes. She knew what it meant for the Black Tiger to catch up.

They were dead. All of them were dead.

Am I going to die too?

Faced with a Nine Thousand Year Soul Beast, what could a child who had just awakened her Martial Soul do to escape?

However, misfortune never came alone. There was no road ahead!

Zhu Zhuqing stared despairingly at the surging river. Behind her, the sound of trees snapping grew clearer and clearer. When she turned around, she saw a huge Black Tiger charging straight at her with a vicious glint in its eyes.

Caught between two impossible choices, Zhu Zhuqing leaped desperately and fell straight into the surging river. The turbulent water immediately swept her off balance, and before long, she sank beneath the surface.

Glug glug glug~

Despair filled Zhu Zhuqing's heart. The river water entering her lungs brought intense pain, but the rushing current gave her no chance to control herself. In the blink of an eye, it carried her downstream.

Am I going to die? I'm so unwilling...

The next moment, her consciousness sank into darkness.

On the riverbank, the Nine Thousand Year Black Tiger stopped when it saw Zhu Zhuqing leap into the water. It paced back and forth beside the river, as if there were some great terror within the water that made it unwilling to approach.

In the end, the Black Tiger gave up on its prey and turned to leave.

......

Downstream

A Fisherman was yawning as he fished.

He had not seen a fish in a long time. His expectations had already dropped from meter-long fish to anything that was a fish.

"Am I going to get an Empty Catch again today?"

He let out a quiet sigh. There were so many fish in the river, so why had none of those foolish things bitten the hook?

Just as he was lamenting how useless the fish here were, the float suddenly plunged beneath the water. His eyes lit up instantly.

A fish had taken the bait!

He gave the rod a fierce pull. The next moment, a dark shadow burst from the water and landed in his arms.

"How the hell is this a person?"

Jiang Qianhai's face darkened in an instant.

Wait, that wasn't quite an Empty Catch, was it? After all, he had still fished something up.

Wasn't this better than simply taking a sip of water and leaving like before?

"But this person looks like she's about to die. She must have drowned."

"Forget it. Since you count as my catch, I'll save your life."

As he spoke, Jiang Qianhai slapped the person on the chest. The next moment, his catch spat out a large mouthful of water.

"Cough, cough, cough." A moment later, Zhu Zhuqing sensed her condition and her expression changed. "Who are you?"

"Me? Jiang Qianhai." Jiang Qianhai shrugged. "Is that how you speak to your Savior?"

Recalling what had happened earlier, Zhu Zhuqing's expression darkened again. "I'm sorry. Thank you for saving me. Please put me down."

A trace of amusement flashed through Jiang Qianhai's eyes, and he set her down.

Thump~

The moment her feet touched the ground, Zhu Zhuqing's legs went weak, and she fell straight onto her butt.

Jiang Qianhai promptly picked her up again.

Zhu Zhuqing's face was filled with embarrassment, and she did not dare look into Jiang Qianhai's eyes.

"Aren't you going to introduce yourself?" Jiang Qianhai withdrew his two Martial Souls and carried Zhu Zhuqing toward the village.

"Zhu Zhuqing." Zhu Zhuqing's complexion remained poor. After saying her name, she sank into dejection again.

Her fury and hatred toward her older sister had already reached their peak. She dreamed of taking revenge, but whenever she thought of the enormous age gap between them and her opponent's considerable talent, she felt lost.

How could she possibly defeat that woman?

"What are you thinking about?" Jiang Qianhai shifted her upward in his arms. "You look like a stray cat someone abandoned."

"You're the stray cat!" Zhu Zhuqing instantly bristled as if someone had stepped on her tail. "How could you possibly understand my pain!"

Jiang Qianhai placed a hand on top of Zhu Zhuqing's head and gently stroked her hair.

"Good girl. I don't know what you've been through, but you don't have to carry everything by yourself. You're still a child."

Zhu Zhuqing had just been about to shake off the hand messing with her hair, but when she heard those words, she could no longer hold back her tears. She burst into loud sobs.

It was not until Jiang Qianhai carried her home that Zhu Zhuqing stopped crying.

"Go take a hot bath first, or you'll catch a chill." Jiang Qianhai pointed toward the bathroom. "The hot water hasn't been used today. I'll get you a change of clothes."

Only after Jiang Qianhai said this did Zhu Zhuqing notice the discomfort covering her body, so she did not refuse.

Jiang Qianhai watched Zhu Zhuqing's back with an unreadable look.

It's actually Zhu Zhuqing? How did she end up here? And she nearly drowned?

Forget it. What did that have to do with him? He only cared about whether he would fish up anything tomorrow.

As for why he knew Zhu Zhuqing—

It was because Jiang Qianhai was a Reincarnator, one who had brought his memories with him from the Six Paths of Reincarnation to this place.

In his previous life, he had merely been one of countless Fishermen. During one fishing trip, a fish had taunted him. Unable to stomach the humiliation, he had jumped into the water to fight the fish one-on-one.

Before he could even touch the fish, a rod had extended down from above his head. With a crackle, Jiang Qianhai had turned white-eyed on the spot together with the fish.

His final thought before dying had been, May all electric fishers die horribly!

Afterward, he had gotten into a minor altercation with the King of Hell in hell and was ultimately tossed into this Small World.

However, the first time he saw the world, he awakened a system—the Ultimate Fisherman system.

Apart from the Newbie Benefit, its basic function was to replace cultivation time with fishing time. In short, he could just fish to cultivate while idle.

Every day at midnight, it would grant rewards according to his catch.

In addition, every time he fished something up, he had a chance of receiving a small surprise.

When Jiang Qianhai fished up Zhu Zhuqing, he had fortunately received a small surprise.

He opened the system information to check it.

Congratulations, Fellow Angler, on fishing up one of the protagonists of Douluo. A small surprise has been triggered. Fellow Angler has received the eleventh-ranked Bone Spirit Cold Fire on the Heavenly Flame Ranking!

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